How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...

A new study offers clarity on one of the most common questions asked of financial professionals: Is term or permanent life ...

If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation,” writes ...

The US government spends over $160 billion annually on scientific research. This massive expense is marketed to taxpayers as ...

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year ...

Study after study consistently finds that female birds have a lower survival rate,” says Wu.  Take a bird flying from the United States to Panama as part of its yearly migration. If female birds fly ...

Behind the polished facade of peer-reviewed journals lurks a growing epidemic of junk science — propped up by predatory ...

Women in science communication roles within scientific societies reported feeling personal responsibility for the work, despite being underpaid and undervalued, according to study results published in ...

A new study by researchers at Arizona State University discovered that we're probably not as good at reading the emotions ...

Now, Kennedy has claimed that a definitive cause of increasing autism diagnoses will be announced this September. But that’s not how scientific investigations work. There’s no scientific evidence ...

This is a worrying waste of effort, given the extensive evidence showing that there is no link between vaccines and autism, ...

Public attitudes must change as well. Certain celebrities have won public attention by appealing to the personal, but they ...